The pie charts provide data about the percentage of children under 18 who learned musical instruments in a specific region of the UK in 1996 and 2016. At the beginning of the period, 44% of young learners played musical instruments, and that left 56% of whom not learning this subject. By 2016, the percentage of learners climbed rapidly to 76%, three times more than that of not studying (24%).
When examining specific data of musical instrument choices, piano had as much as 30% of players under 18 in 1996, but the figure then decreased slightly by roughly 2% in 2016. In contrast, keyboard saw a substantial increase from 21% to 30% during the same period.
Electric guitar, with only 13% in 1996, grew by 3% in the next twenty years. On the contrary, violin suffered a modest decline from 14% to 10% at the same time. Acoustic guitar, much like violin, also decreased steeply by 5% to only 3% in 2016.
Moreover, the figure of young learners playing more than one instrument achieved growth to reach 13% after two decades. Others accounted for 3% in 1996, and then dropped to only 2% by the end of the timeframe.
Overall, it is clear that while there was an upward trend in the percentage of youngsters playing keyboard and electric guitar, there were less piano, violin, and acoustic guitar users from 1996 to 2016.